Art: 250000

Again a U. S. merchant has snatched from the hands of Europeans a
painting steeped in old world tradition. Jacob Epstein, onetime
peddler, now potent Baltimore merchant, bought last week from
Knoedler & Co. of Manhattan for $250,000 Sir Anthony Van Dyck's
"Rinaldo and Armida," just at the moment when British art lovers were
raising a smaller sum to bring the painting to the British National
Gallery. . . .